#ryss responds

[ryssbelle]

Does the flower from your first n2 post have any significance? Why isn't it blooming?

Yes the flower here does have significance!

It’s a memorial flower, the exact species of flower is one I made up, it’s one that has a strange growth period, there’s no real way to tell when it’s going to bloom but it does only bloom at night.

John Dory got the seeds while on one of his searches and gave it to Floyd since at the time Floyd was severely depressed and was spending all day everyday in his room in the bunker. JD had given Floyd a bunch of seeds for a garden but Floyd ended up only planting one which he’s been taking care of since he planted it.

He planted it on Clays birthday so they refer to it as Clay’s flower, but it’s a memorial for all their lost family members, so their parents, grandma, Clay, and Spruce/Bruce

Other than just maintaining it, Floyd also talks to it like the ones they lost can hear him through the flower, he visits it at least once everyday while the other brothers only visit on anniversaries and birthdays. (They also only bring the lights and photos out then as well, to keep the photos safe from damage)

It’s Floyd’s way of grieving :)

#ryss responds #not the only one au #n2 au #trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls Floyd #I wanted to give them each a different way of grieving their family #JD is obsessively trying to correct his mistake (failing to save clay) by trying to find him and spruce if they’re still out there #branch isolates and builds a bunker to protect himself and what family he has left #and Floyd does gardening #they also refer to the area where the flower is as the garden or Floyd’s garden #even tho there’s only one flower #the area around the flower is also heavily booby trapped #the only people who know how to get to it are the brothers and poppy #this is to stop trolls from accidentally harming it and to stop critters from eating it #its a big flower by troll standards but by others its a small flower #in my head its one of those that are usually in clusters #but this one stands alone #maybe its a metaphor #who knows teehe #but yeah I’ve actually thought about the flower a lot #also the reason poppy knows where to find it and how to get to it is because she helps take care of it when Floyd’s away #she’s also the one who picked the spot #she doesn’t like the traps but any one she took down immediately got replaced so she stopped trying #and just learned the steps to get around them #btw the steps to get around the traps are the old choreo for a brozone song lmao #because I loved that aspect of tbgo where branch sets the paths around traps to songs from his childhood #so he done did it again

[thelastarchangelaskblog]

Session 9

This session was another dungeon crawler! We also hit level 4 by the end! A lot happened; it was also a very giggly session as we kept breaking out of character to laugh.

All of us were in attendance, and we have lots of highlights.

**

(Read more.)

We open up immediately after Tony (me) has had the dream, and DJ (doxblogsstuff) and Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric​) are first up and chatting about breakfast. DJ would like to apologize to Tony for what happened the other day.

DJ: I was gonna try to apologize by making him breakfast.

Zira: doubt.jpg

Zira is not at all certain about DJ doing anything cooking-related, even though DJ insists he knows how to cut things up.

DJ: I'll have you know my professor told me I had the best prepared, and best cut ingredients of anyone in the class. 

Zira: Of what, though?

DJ’s talents lie in alchemy, and Zira is very aware of this.

Zira: You are very good at exploding things, and I fear this talent will extend to everything you do.

DJ: I want to make breakfast, Zira! How hard can it be to make toast?

very hard

DJ does eventually do the toast thing.

Dox: DJ gets his bread out.

@the-grey-hunt​ as DM: Roll for toast.

Dox rolls pretty high, so DJ’s first attempts at making toast go well!

DM: DJ did just make toast perfectly competently in front of you. 

Helio: Yeah, but Zira's still pressing X to doubt.

Dox:  I can't believe I wasted my Nat 20 on toast.

Dox makes some more toast for everyone else but one of them is pretty charcoaled and that goes to Bob ( @thechaoticwave​) since he can’t smell or taste. 

Helio: Zira isn’t laughing in DJ’s face, but the energy is there.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions​) gets a rather burnt piece as well but it’s Tony who gets a good piece because DJ’s feeling apologetic.

DJ to Tony: I made toast and didn’t even burn it!

Tony’s still reeling from the dream and the leather glove Bob threw at his head this morning.

Tony: Then why does Rhodey’s bread look rather burnt?

DJ asks for privacy from Zira so he can talk to Tony.

Zira: Have fun! Don't commit any murder!

DJ and Tony have a pretty heartfelt conversation as DJ apologizes for what happened yesterday. Tony’s a little uncertain about the apology because he did deserve it but DJ’s insistent.

They tie it up with talking about their upcoming mission.

DJ: Now we're gonna go and try not to get killed by a bunch of bugbears. This is gonna suck.

DJ then rushes off to make toast for Clint but doesn’t roll very well.

DJ, handing toast to Clint: If it makes you feel better, Bob's was worse.

Clint: It doesn’t.

Tony has a talk with Rhodey about some suspicious stuff Bob did.

Tony: Hey, uh, Rhodey...have you...uh...noticed anything...odd about Bob?

Rhodey probably internally: what the fuck isn’t odd about Bob

Rhodey: Odd?

Tony: (says something buckwild about Bob seeing things that aren’t there)

Rhodey: ...huh.

Rhodey does agree to keep an eye on things with Tony.

Rhodey: What's Bob's name today?

Tony: I have no fucking idea. I'm just calling him Bob. 

Rhodey: So, you haven't asked yet. Good to know.

Tony’s a little sad since he had a good nickname for Bob the previous day.

Tony: What do you think he'd do if I call him Riff-Raff? 

Rhodey: I have no idea. 

Tony turns around. 

Tony: Hey, Riff-Raff! 

Bob doesn't respond. 

Tony: Well, that answers that. 

Reba in the lurking chat: Rhodey stares doubtfully at Tony’s back

We head to Cragmaw Castle! Clint volunteers to sneak.

Zira: That is horrifically structurally unsound. Good luck.

DM: Clint's character in a nutshell: dirty 20 followed immediately by a nat 1

We all have red cloaks from the Redbrands and we make sure we’re ready to go in.

DM to Bob: Your beak is still visible; there's not a lot you can do to hide that.

@imagine1117​: Look down.

We’re all dressed to go bluff our way through the castle!

Zira: Tony, you are very good at bullshit. I think you should go first.

thanks for putting me on the spot, helio

Tony does manage to bluff their way past the guards by saying they scrammed from Briarbane because things went south. They gain access to the castle.

We (Tony & Zira) have a chat with a goblin sentry where Zira is critiquing their structurally unsound choice of a hideout.

Zira: This is absolutely terribly unsafe.

Goblin: What - do you want to go build something?

Tony: This is absolutely awesome and has great atmosphere.

Goblin: See - this guy gets it!

Tony says goodbye by telling him to have fun guarding. We’re then left to our own ends to find the boss who won’t be pleased with us having left Briarbane.

Zira: I assume the boss is behind the trap, because they're usually cowards.

We get further into the castle and there’s an area hidden behind a curtain. Tony suggests investigating and Rhodey and Bob take him up on it.

Reba: I roll 14 for stealth.

DM: Okay! (dice clattering on table)

There’s a monster that drops from the ceiling!

imagine: Is [the grick] slimy? 

DM: Sure.

The grick goes down in no time.

DJ: Hey. Hey, you! (launches Magic Missile) Bitch. 

Bob notices some people behind the curtain. Luna and then Rhodey both go to investigate. Rhodey notices a goblin’s foot behind the altar in the room.

DM: I forgot to roll initiative for some people. 

Me: WHICH PEOPLE 

DM: Don't worry about it. 

imagine: We're worrying!

Me: Of course we're going to worry!

A goblin springs out from behind the altar and tries to attack Rhodey. It misses. DJ then attempted to whack the goblin with his quarterstaff but misses. Tony ran in and then shouted at the goblin to stop attacking because they were allies.

DM: For the record, because of how rounds work, Tony ran in and asked why they were fighting you guys simultaneously as DJ tried to hit him with his quarterstaff.

Helio: So Zira slips over to the doorway to the room, and sees Mom trying to commit murder, Dad attempting to soothe hurt feelings, and her brother doing whatever the fuck he’s doing.

Dox: Also trying to commit murder!

Bob unsuccessfully tries to set the goblin on fire.

There’s another goblin that springs out and this one looks more like a priest and notices our red cloaks and demands an explanation. Tony bullshits one about being from Briarbane.

DM (to me): Roll deception. He's going to roll competing insight - natural one. Don't even bother. He believes you instantly.

Rhodey “intimidates” the first goblin into giving up his weapon. It’s “intimidates” because he rolled a 21 and the goblin got a nat 20 so the goblin grudgingly handed over his scimitar because he was in the wrong.

Reba: I'm trying to get Rhodey to accumulate odd weapons.

We get out of the religious goblins’ way and Tony tells the first goblin to look before he attacks next time since otherwise he might get hurt. The advice is taken seriously.

Once we’re out in private we have a discussion on what to do the next time we meet some goblins. Tony is very serious about telling them that there will be no setting people on fire (to Bob) and no explosions (to DJ) since they will be talking their way through the encounters. So future encounters mean no raising weapons! He drills this into their heads.

DJ: I wanted to protect Mom!

Rhodey covers his mouth to stop laughing.

Rhodey: That’s great, but I don’t need protection.

Tony: But it’s a sweet thought, isn’t it, Hubby?

Everyone in the VC cracks up laughing.

Rhodey: Hubby?

Bob: Is that better or worse than "Rhodeo”?

Zira is confused about when we actually got married but then realizes it’s another nickname. Just a bad one that is not worse than Rhodeo.

Tony: You love all my nicknames. Don’t even lie.

We continue on this vein.

DM: Clint is still there, by the way.

thechaoticwave: I give him another arrow and bolt.

DM: Goddamn it.

Rhodey is decidedly unimpressed with Zira mentioning Rhodeo.

Rhodey: Please, I would take any nickname over “Rhodeo.”

Zira, cheerfully: Okay, Mom!

We continue onwards and don’t run into anymore issues aside from two hobgoblins. Rhodey rolls a great performance check after Tony says he has to walk in like he’s supposed to be there. The hobgoblins are easily enough fooled and direct us to where the boss is as Tony asks if he’s in the usual place.

Most of the group is really uncertain about going to where the boss is so Tony opts for majority opinion. Clint pulls them back and they do end up knocking on the boss’s door.

Bob hides behind Clint since he can’t hide his beak. He also stuffs his new glass staff into Tony’s bag of holding.

thechaoticwave: How tall is Clint? 

DM: Hang on, let me Google how tall Jeremy Renner is.

Our employer is in the room! Along with one bugbear, one pet wolf, and one drow (who is working for the Black Spider). They’re irritated to see us but we’re still in disguise and Tony tries to bluff his way through it but we reach a stalemate.

Bob really wants to set things on fire and asks Tony if he can. Tony nods; Rhodey catches the nod. The three of them get in a surprise round!

Bob heads over to our employer and heals him some.

This is the first time we’ve spoken to Ryss since session 1.

Bob: Hey, what's crackalackin? 

We’re in actual combat and Dox realizes something important about our combat order...

Dox: When did Clint go? 

DM: FUCK

The drow - badly injured - transforms into a mirror image of Rhodey! ...They’re still on fire.

Reba: I want to hit the drow.

DM: What drow? There's just Rhodey.

Mid-combat, Bob asks Tony for his glass staff. I take up an entire action to throw the staff right to him. One awesome DEX save later and Bob catches it.

Zira moves to attack the drow, who still looks like Rhodey. She switches personalities to 465.

DM: So 465 doesn’t give a shit about Rhodey?

Helio: 465 doesn’t give a shit about anyone.

We defeat the drow and the bugbear and the wolf! And there’s loot! And Ryss is okay! We have a map to the Lost Mine!

Reba about the bag of holding: It's an Armory of Holding and a Bag of Healing.

Clint heads off with Ryss (several bolts and arrows later) once we sneak out the castle the back way. The rest of the group will head off to the Lost Mine next session!

Aaaaand that’s a wrap! (And so much bullshitting but surprisingly not many lies.)

#rebaobsessions #heliocentricgeometric #thechaoticwave #doxblogsstuff #the-grey-hunt #imagine1117 #there was so much bullshitting #it was so much fun to have tony say that stuff #d&d campaign

[lakryss-sparrow-blog]

Press and guide- Geladacar

Lakryss wasn’t at all surprised when Geladacar stepped into her shop, in fact she was rather happy to see her old friend, but then something shocked her as she found herself being pressed up against the wall. There was no warning, no greeting, and Ryss barely had time at all to respond before being guided into a kiss that left her speechless. 

“Gel...what are you doing?”

@geladacarironborne

#Anonymous

[ryssbelle]

Hello random but I love how you draw Ravio :))

Uhh.. all ravios ofc

Thank you!!! He is one of my favorites to draw, he’s so cute 🥰

#ryss responds #legend of zelda #loz #ft ravio #ravio #fractured timeline #Tysm fr #he is the cutest #and I love his color palette #he has the cool colors of a villain but is just a lil guy #who steals my shit when I die and takes over my house >:( #but I still love him

[ryssbelle]

jd in the bottle would be SO cool like.. floyd+branch+bruce find clay and they all go to mount rageous n jd being like (happy tears) i tried to find you for years but you ended up finding Me huh - + finally getting confirmation that he did live

Okay that might work, I’ve thought about it my only hang up having been that I’ve seen it a lot (John Dory in da bottle) and I wanted to try something fresh but like I’m also someone who will just change things on a dime should it benefit the stories and characters and JD in da bottle would make for great character moments. Though I’m still probably going to draw little things from the other possibilities, I only really have two other things maybe, just for fun.

I’m still not sure about making this a big thing but I’m all for just having fun with it so if you guys have anything you wanna see lemme know!!

Also when I had first read this this is honestly what came to mind, the quotes are from Half Life but the ai is self aware lmao:

NTOO JD has Benrey Vibes sometimes

Bonus:

Sorry it’s sloppy I drew it in the car lol

#ryss responds #trolls au #not the only one au #trolls #trolls 3 #dreamworks trolls #yeah I finally got a name for it #I got the name off the google doc and also from across the spider verse from Gwen’s opening monologue #cuz this time branch is not the only one #wink wink #you can abbreviate it as NTOO or #N2 #cuz pronunciation #I’m working on clays and Bruce’s intro pages #or ref pages more accurately #but I keep getting distracted by asks and also silly thoughts #but I have them both sketched and Clays is partially lined #clays also includes vivas #I’m just trying to decide if I wanna add to her at all #cuz she’s like #perfect dude #can’t mess with perfection #tho I saw a toy of her with this really cute dress so I wanna try and merge her current outfit with it #see if can’t make something fun #Clay keeps his long sleeve sweater romper just with some minor changes #and Bruce gets a whole new fit that’s still reminiscent of his old one #just cuz it’s gonna be easier for me to color #I’ve also got a little comic sketched out of clays side of the cave in #I don’t want it to be too long tho so I’m trying to trim it down #my wrist hurts I need to pace myself lmao

[ryssbelle]

JD is going to ugly baby cry when he finally finds Clay? Like the overflow of Relief and happiness Will literally turns him into a blabbering mess That only Floyd can understand Because Floyd is the sensitive one.

I haven’t fully decided how the moment would go, there’s a lot of directions but I did decide to kind of do a concept doodle of this scenario, sort of. I was gonna send it with this ask but I think it deserves its own post for how long it is XD but know you were the ask that spawned it. But yeah I have lots of ideas on what could possibly happen, the biggest aspect of it that is subject to change is whether or not Clay is there in what would be this aus version of the Branch Floyd reunion from the movie, and then like what goes with that you know?

I’m more along the idea that Clay would be there, as would most of them, due to the circumstances having changed so drastically that they wouldn’t be separated by a fight, but you never know. This is pretty close tho to some of like my first thoughts, also sorry for taking a literal month to answer again the concepts I made were meant to go with this but I was going through so many drafts I legit just exploded.

The concept doodle will probs be posted tomorrow tho ;D

#Ryss responds #trolls au #n2 au #not the only one au #trolls #I’m just tryna have fun with it #so whichever option is most fun for me in the end is the one I’m going with #there’s a lot of changes to the third movie with how the cards are laid #I’m trying to think of fun ways to spice up the second movie but like tbh #not much really changes #because it doesn’t really have to #there are some fun moments I’ve thought of #like delta would def recognize branch and Floyd if I decide to let Floyd tag along #which changes entirely how lonesome flats plays out #there’s a sax battle I could do if my mystery mouseketool joins along #but then like after it’s pretty much the same lol #which I suppose is fine but you know #there’s also the fact that due to how the trolls movie timeline works if John is in da bottle he’s just missing for a month #then for the world tour #and then a month after #which is something that would become significant since John would be spending more time in troll village after movie one #but yeah lots of things rotating in this brain

[ryssbelle]

Why are the brothers keeping JD's search a secret from Branch? When does he find out, if at all?

Well it's not so much that they're keeping it a secret, Branch fully knows why JD leaves it's just a very sore subject.

Branch is already certain in his heart and mind that Clay is dead and theres no reason to search while JD, despite having been witness to the cave in, has hope that hes alive somewhere.

So they used to get into a lot of arguments about it until one of them set Floyd off on both of them, so they have since decided to just not bring it up around each other.

#ryss responds #trolls au #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls john dory #trolls branch #trolls floyd #the last argument theyd had about it got really heated with them both just kind of sniping at each other #and floyd couldnt take it anymore and just went bonkers insane on them #they decided to leave it on people grieve differently so we'll stop talking about it@ #so they try not to bring up JDs search progress around branch to avoid fights

[ryssbelle]

In your Trolls AU, how did John Dory get captured?

Let's just say he got a false lead about his brother from some unreliable folks

#ryss responds #trolls au #n2 au #trolls john dory #trolls #Im sure you can guess who it was #when you go insane for 20 years looking for one guy word gets around #especially if both you and that guy were in a famous band

[ryssbelle]

jd is in his early 40s at least - if you’re going on the ‘he was 16 when he left’, thats not when the 20 year countdown begins (which is after the trollstice escape), there was enough time between brozone breakup and grandma getting eaten that branch went from baby to either small child or toddler, then the 20 years, and then around another year in the time gap from trolls 1-3.

(For legal reasons this is not /srs read tags for further information)

#ryss responds #i mean you can do what you want #i dont really care #the post i made about it was mostly satire and just a tad informative #but again as a fanfic writer or artist you can once again do whatever you want forever #i cant stop you and quite frankly i wont #but anyway the age thats on the wiki comes from blog posts made by brozone #from the website #and from floyds blog #so id say its p accurate which is why its the one im using #for the 3rd time you can make him as old or as young as you want #have fun with it #thats just whats listed on the website #plus i saw people treating the age 30 like its the end of their lives and like #chill dude you just got started #so thats mostly what that post was about i just used JD as the example because it was happening to him

[ryssbelle]

#ryss responds #boop

[ryssbelle]

I would like to apologize for the sheer amount of boops I gave you I didn't realize it sent a notification every time untill I was booped and I got a little too excited lol

Do not fret, my child, but prepare, for my vengeance will be swift and powerful.

#ryss responds #my armies ride at dawn #also thanks for the boops teehee #nkw get ready for my retaliation!!!

[ryssbelle]

Boop

#ryss responds #first of all #how dare you

[ryssbelle]

#ryss responds

[ryssbelle]

If Sky is the designated hair stylist, does he try to style hair as a bird? Bird preening everyone? (At first, I thought the term was pruning, but i was wrong. Pruning is for plants, lol)

He does, and sometimes finds strange things hidden in there

#ryss responds #divine twili beast sky #linked universe #lu sky #lu ravio #lu wild #wild regularly cleans his hair and they still find sticks in it #it looks so neat but is hiding many secrets #ravios hair jingles #cuz it's filled with money lol

[ryssbelle]

I have a confession. I know full well what bird Sky looks like, but every time I think about him w/out reading the comic, I think about the totk ostrich, but black

This is ages old but sidgnfjenbvs i tried to edit the totk ostrich and i just created a monster

Little man has just walked out of the backrooms hello sir

#ryss responds #divine twili beast sky #linked universe #totk #im so sorry #im so bad at answering asks #and editing #lmao #so youre welcome

[ryssbelle]

#Ryss responds